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DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Batta l io n DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION VOLUME 41 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 14, 1941 Z275 NUMBER 16 Personnel Record Blanks Now Available for Filing Spring Graduates " Requested to File Employment Sheets Personnel record blanks for grad uating seniors, given by the Place ment Bureau to each department to be distributed, are now available to all departments in the college in order that seniors may acquire the blanks and fill them out, Lucian M. Morgan, director of the Bureau, an nounced yesterday. All students who plan to gradu ating either next June or in the summer are urged to fill out the blanks and turn them in to the placement and personnel division of the Association of Former Stu dents. There will be no charge for filling out the questionaire as it is done solely for the benefit of graduates trying to get jobs. The purpose of the personnel rec ord is to make it possible for pros pective employers to have a de tailed account of the student con sidered without necessarily having to interview the graduate person ally. Besides the record, it is possible to have personnel leaflets printed, 150 for $4.00, that will be good for several years after graduation. Due to the uncertainty many students feel about their plans after grad uation, some will feel there is no need to try to contact employers until after their service in the army, but this is not the idea of the plan. Seniors, by the use of the per sonnel record and leaflets, will be able to contact prospective em ployers and have their applica • tions on file with them before grad uation. Then afetr leaving the army all that will be necessary will be to contact the company and they will only have to look up the leaf let on their file. If a company writes for infor mation concerning a certain type (See LEAFLETS, Page 4) Activities Group To Meet Thursday Members of the student activi ties committee will meet in the of fice of Dean F. C. Bolton Thursday at 2:30 p.m. At this time an alloca tion of funds to the various org anizations requesting funds will be made. Thirty nine applications have been received asking for a total of $7300. At present there is only $200 available to be distributed on the basis already set forth in a previous meeting. In allocating these funds, pref erence will be given to service groups with minor sports coming next. Funds will be provided for del egates, speakers and approved tours if sufficient. Juniors Receive Authorized Passes Starting Friday 12 Final Plans Made at Meet In Guion Hall Last Night; Aggies Guests at Supper Juniors who are planning to at tend the Junior Prom at TSCW in Denton Friday night before, the TCU game will be given authorized absences in order to allow them to miss Friday afternoon classes. Passes may be turned in to the commandant’s office for the au thorized absences before leaving for Denton. Each year the junior class at TSCW invites the junior class of A. & M. to the junior prom before the first corps trip of the football season. A steak fry is another of the highlights of the evening’s entertainment. A meeting of the junior class was held last night in the Assem bly Hall to explain details of the trip to all the members of the class who intend to go. Corps Will Leave For Fort Worth On Specials Saturday First Parade of Year Will be Held; Number One Uniform Is Reg at Game The Latest Thing- Your Shoes Are Shined While You Go to Class § Two special trains will be run to Ft. Worth for the corps trip and game against T.C.U. Saturday, one of which will leave Saturday at 4:10 a.m. and will arrive in Ft. Worth at 9:35 a.m. The second will leave at 4:35 a.m. and will pull in at 9:50 a.m. The corps will form for the par ade on the circus lot adjacent to the Main street underpass ,and the parade will proceed up Main street to Houston, up Houston to Wea therford where it will disband. The reviewing stand will be lo cated in front of the Texas Ho tel. All students that do not ride the train are required to be at the cir • cus lot at 9:30 a.m. to form with their outfit. Number one uniform will be reg • ulation for the parade and game, and number two will be regulation for the rest of the time, and all students not possessing a uniform will attend the game in civilian clothes. Defense Taxes Raise Prices Of enior Class Rings ASME Contest For Members Is Started E. H. Copeland and M. W. Curtis are the two seniors leading in the annual A. S. M. E. membership contest for M. E. seniors. This contest was progressing i rapidly last week, and the indications are that the A. S. M. E. membership record of previous will be broken. This contest offers a minimum cash prize of twenty-five dollars and the possibility of a trip to New York for the winning senior. Those in the contest should note that over one thousand engineers are registered in the M. E. department and only a small percentage of these have signed thus far. Prospective members are given a choice of either the one dollar or the three dollar membership. The one dollar membership gives the member the right of partici pation in the club’s activities, while the three dollar membership includes a gold A. S. M. E. pin and a subscription to the “Mechanical Engineer.” All those interested and wishing to join up should contact any M. E. senior in the contest. Pictures Taken By Cotton Group Shown First Time Thursday Motion pictures taken in techni color on the tenth annual Cotton Fellowship Tour were presented for the first time in public last Thursday night at the regular meeting of the Agronomy society. Those making the tour last sum mer were Jimmie Robinson, E. R. Butler, and Ralph Hartgraves with the faculty representative, Louis Thompson, acting as cameraman. The tour is sponsored in connec tion with the annual Cotton Ball and pageant. The party left College Station last May 31 for Stoneville, Missis sippi. From there to New Orleans the group observed the practices and customs in the vast Mississippi valley. Enroute to Washington, D. C., the party was privileged to go via the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Sky Line Drive. From Washington the boys went to New York where special em phasis was given to Cotton-market ing studies. The party came home via the southeastern part of Cana da and the corn belt . After the showing of the pictures “Bugs’” Tate, Sergeant-at-arms, appointed Fred Coley, Louis Bren ner, and Trigo Villamil to act as a committee to direct the initia tion ceremonies at the next meet ing. This day of modern convenience at Texas A. & M! After the Wed nesday opening of a shine parlor by Jimmy Souris it will be possi ble for the Aggies to send their shoes out and have them shined and delivered back the same day. They will be picked up in every aorm by student labor agents every morning and returned at the usual prices. This new, all modern shine par lor will be located over the Col lege Inn and will be open until 10 or 11 every night. Jimmy Souris, of Vernon, Texas, is the manager of the shine parlor, which offers additional student labor opportuni ties for boys who will act as agents in the various dorms. Agents will pick up shoes in the 11) 1941 mornings and will return them at night at the usual price being charged and the delivery will be thrown in free of charge so you get a shine and delivery for the usual prices. Aggies Return From Victorious Jaunt to New York The Aggie football team return ing; from New York was met at 1:30 p.m. Monday in front of dorm itory 12 by students who did not have classes. The victorious team was greeted by an impromptu yell practice. The team left New York immediately after the game and came to Hearne on the train where they changed to two chartered bus es. When the busses were sighted, the band led off with “Recall”. Led by J. O. Alexander, senior yell leader, the corps cheered the team and gave “Farmer’s Fight until to night.” First Meeting Of Brazos Area Reserve Officers Held Tonight All Reserve Officers living in the Brazos County Area are urged to attend the first meeting of the year, which will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Petroleum Engi neering Lecture Room. The pro gram will consist of a confer ence with Col. A. C. Burnett and Col. J. C. Parks of the Houston Military District with regard to the new promotion plan for Reserve Officers, the new method of ad ministering correspondence, and some conclusions to be drawn from the recently concluded Third Army maneuvers in Louisiana. 3000 Ex-Aggies Are Now on Active Duty With U S Army More than 3,000 ex-Aggies. are now with Uncle Sam on active duty in the army, according to releas es from the A. & M. publicity de partment. Five hundred and thirty five of these graduated with last June’s class of 808 men, practically all of whom are now officers on duty with troops in the field. During World War I over 2200 Aggies served with the A.E.F. Five thousand commissions as sec ond lieutenants have been issued to graduates of A. & M. since that time. Orders in by October 1 Will Not be Affected By Recent Increase in Prices All senior rings purchased on or after October October 1, 1941, will be subject to a ten percent tax which will be added to the price of the ring, according to an an nouncement made by H. L. Heaton, acting registrar. This tax is un der the provisions of the Federal Tax Law which went into effect on that date. Deposits made be fore October 1 will not be subject to the tax, but the balance will be taxed. Heaton said that accord ing to their information no tax is to be added to the rings deliver ed to the office prior to October Tickets for TCU Game May Be Purchased From Y Desk Gilchrist Attends Washington Meeting Gibb Gilchrist, dean of the school of engineering, attended a meet ing of the advisory committee on national defense courses offered new officers for duty as instruc The meeting lasted one and one half days and was held in Washing ton, D.C. and the committee dis cussed routine matters and decid ed on the ways in which the $17,- 500,000 appropriations for the year would be spent. Dean Gilchrist will attend an other meeting to be held in Wash ington on December 6, when other business will be transacted. A & M Dairy Team Wins Second Place In Memphis Contest The dairy judging team took second place in the annual dairy cattle judging contests at the In ternational Dairy Exposition, held in Memphis, Tenn., this past week. A total of 24 teams from cql- leges all over North America com peted and first place went to Iowa State over Texas A. & M. by s scant margin. Others in the first ten teams included: Kansas, Ne braska, Oklahoma A. & M., Geor gia, Kentucky, Ohio State, Missi ssippi State and Minnesota. The Aggie team placed fifth in Ayrshires and Brown Swiss, second on Guernseys, third on Holsteins and fourth on Jerseys. H. B. Hales, Amarillo, took fourth place on Ayrshires; seventn on Guernseys; sixth in Brown Swiss; and tenth in Jerseys, to win fourth place in the contest for individuals. J. C. Kay, Tyle",' took sixth in Ayrshire^ to place fifteenth in the contest; and D. L. Ator, Lipan, with a second in Hol steins, and a ninth in Guernseys, placed twelfth in the affair. On Oct. 20 the dairy products team, A. V. Moore, of the dairy husbandry department as coach, will compete in the Dairy Indus tries Exposition at Toronto, Cana da. They will leave here the latter part of this week so as to have a day to spare before they start work. Team members making the trip include: Kenneth King, Whar ton; A. B. Jeffries and M. K. So- derquist, Hot Springs, Ark.; W. B. Barron, College Station, and Prof. Moore. Texas May Be Spot for USDA Cork Experiment Bids on Airport Improvements Asked Bids for earthwork on the East- erwood airport will be received un til October 16, announced Dean Gibb Gilchrist. Earthwork on three run ways is estimated to cost $60,000 Specifications and other informa tion can be had from the dean’s office. The U. S. Department of Agri culture’s Forest Service is plan ning a small experiment program during the coming year on the planting and cultivation of cork oak, provided the necessary sup ply of acorns can be received. Texas may be chosen as the proving ground to test the feasibility of this experiment, because the cli mate of parts of Texas is very simi lar to that of the mountainous portions of Spain, Portugal, and North Africa, the natural habi tat of the cork oak. Although no cork producing trees grow in Texas now, C. W. Sim mons, farm forester of the A. & M. Extension Service, says that in view of the similarity of cli mate together with the altitude and wide choice of soils there seems to be no biological reason why it should not be grown successfully in sections of Texas. Several species of the oak are grown in the state, and Simmons is of the opinion that East Central Texas, especially the upper end of the live oak areas, might be best suited for propagation of cork oaks in the event the U.S.D.A. Forest Service extends its pro posed experiment to Texas. Th?. bark is the portion of the tree pro cessed for commercial cork pro ducts. The United States has been im porting about $10,000,000 worth of cork yearly from the Meditev- lanean area. Growing shortages to meet defense requirements has raised the question about the possi bility of growing a backlog of the material in this country. Two Officers Transferred Here On Military Staff Col McIntyre and Major Fox Relieved by Lt Col Boles and Lt Col Caphton Notice of the transfer of two ne wofficers for duty as instruc tors in the military science depart ment has been received from the War Department in Washington to replace Lt. Col. O. C. McIntyre, sen ior instructor, Field Artillery, and Major Tom Fox, senior instructor, Infantry. Lt. Col. John L. Boles, Field Ar tillery, will become senior instruc tor in the Field Artillery unit after Col. McIntyre leaves. Col. Boles is now on duty with the state headquarters of the Third Army at Fort Sam Houston, Tex as, in San Antonio. Lt. Col. Carl L. Caphton, Infan try, will become the senior ins tructor in the Infantry unit soon after Major Fox is transferred. Col. Caphton is now transferred at Camp Bowie in Brownwood. No definite orders regarding the transfers of these four officers have been received from the War Department as yet. No further word has been re ceived from Colonel Maurice D. Welty, who is to report here as commandant and professor of mili tary science and tactics. Col. Welty is stationed at present in New foundland and is unable to report here until he is replaced there. It is expected that he will be here by November 15. No Word Received On Subsistence Payment No word has been received from the corps area headquarters in San Antonio regarding payment of subsistence to seniors, according to a statement issued by the mili tary department yesterday. The payment covers the period from the end of camp until the be ginning of school in September. Water-Conscious Aggies Boost Downs Natatorium Attendance James, ASHVE Head, Visits A & M Sunday John James, technical secretary, American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, paid a visit to the Texas A&M College campus this past week to inspect thme facilities at the college used in the teaching of the en gineering courses in heating and ventilating. By H. F. Ball The first record of the year to go down in the W. P. L. Downs Natatorium, A. & M.’s “old swim ming hole,” is that of attendance. Art Adamson, manager is dipping some six hundred boys in the pool every day. Adamson said that he could give no specific reason for the unpre cedented interest in swimming, un- less it could be because of the in creasing interest in swimming as a sport over the country. A. & M. is well equipped to handle the increasing crowds at the pool. It is the largest indoor pool in the Southwest, being sixty by one hundred feet. The water is carefully filtered so that the entire content of the pool goes through the filter in twenty-four hours. During the filtration pro cess the water is also warmed to the temperature of the building, which is kept at a constant eighty degrees. The pool is marked off into 7 foot regulation A. A. U. lanes and may be used for A. A .U competition. Coach Adamson’s water polo teams have established an enviable record for A. & M., having lost on ly four games in eight years of competition. Two of these games were lost to athletic clubs, The team has won the State A. A. U. championship every year, was run ner-up in the Junior National A. A. U. meet in 1938, and won it in 1939. Water polo games are play ed every night and dual meets between organizations are held. Swimming hours for students are from 4 to 5:30 on Monday, Tues day, Thursday and Friday, and from 3 to 5:30 on Wednesday, Sat urday and Sunday. The only re quirements for the use of the pool are a regulation cotton strap and a rubber cap. Life saving classes dre held every Friday night for those who are interested. A&M Will Offer Course in Welding For National Defense In an effort to help provide qualified welders needed so badly in the national defense programs, A&M College through its mechan ical engineering department, will offer an eight-weeks course in welding, starting Oct. 16, C. W. Crawford, department head, has announced. The course will take three hours a night for two nights each week and will be taught by H. P. Rigs by, one of the staff of the depart ment and a noted authority on the subject of welding. The cost of the course will be approximately $14 and the hours are so arranged that employed mechanics can take the course without taking time off from their regular work, Crawford pointed out. Shepardson On Dairy Committee C. N. Shepardson head of the dairy husbandry department at A. & M. and an internationally known figure in dairying circles, has received notice of his appoint ment to the Inter-American Com mittee for the Dairy Industry. Shepardson explained that the purpose of the committee is to in crease the production and consump tion of milk and milk products in all countries in the Western Hemisphere. Delegates from all of the Americas will be present when the committee meets at the Dairy Industries Exposition in Toronto, Canada, Octobfer 23. The Exposition will be held October 19 25, but the committee plans to meet only one day. Shepardson, one of 14 U. S. ci tizens appointed, is the only one on the commitee from the South or Southwest. He also is a mem ber of the Board of Directors of the American Jersey Cattle Club and will attend a meeting of that board in Memphis this week while enroute to Canada. Also at Toronto for the judging contests will be the A. & M. Col lege dairy products judging team composed of Kenneth King, Whar ton; W . B. Barron, College Sta tion; A. B. Jeffries and M. K. So- derquist, both of Hot Springs, Ark.; and A. V. Moore, team coach. ' Sale Will Continue Through 5 Friday Date Tickets-$2.50 Student tickets for the A. & M.- T.C.U. footbal Igame to be played in Fort Worth Saturday will be available at the desk of the YMCA with coupon number 33 for $1.10. Regular tickets and date tickets will also be available at the Y desk for $2.50 as long as they last, E. W. Hooker, superintendent of tic ket sales announced. Only A. & M. students will be ad • mitted on the $1.10 tickets. Hook er stated that he hoped to sell all of the 5400 tickets which he has on hand. Tickets will be available until 5 p.m. Friday when they must be turned in to the T.C.U. ticket office in order to be sold at the gate Saturday. Lindholm Writes For Texas Municipalities Richard W. Lindholm, recent ad dition to the economics staff, is the author of an article, “Tax De linquency in Texas Cities”, which appeared in the August edition of Texas Municipalities, official publication of the cities in the state. The article deals with the amount of delinquent taxes which remain unpaid in various Texas cities and with the methods used to collect them. Lindholm who came here this year from Texas University is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. Hedges Appointed To Advisory Council On Defense Committee Dr. C. C. Hedges, head of the department of chemistry and direc tor of the fireman’s training school, has accepted an appointment on the Advisory Council to the State Fire Coordinator of the Civilian National Defense. Hedges will be on the board, with Honorable Mar vin Hall, State Fire Insurance Commissioner, of Austin, Texas. For a number of years Hedges has conducted the Firemen’s Short Course and in his new position will be able to contribute to the pro tection of Texas in the planning for Civilian Fire Defense. The com mittee of which Hedges is a mem ber will make rules and plans for the Fire Defense of Texas in both the civilian and municipal dis tricts. Collegiate Who’s Who Lists Twenty Aggies This Year Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities for the 1941-42 session will contain the names of twenty students at Texas A. & M. whose names have not appeared before. Cadet Colonel Tom Gillis’ biography will appear for the sec ond time this year. The collegiate version of Who’s Who is published by the University of Alabama under the editorship of H. Pettus Randall. It contains the biographies of the student leaders in all the American col leges and universities. These stu dents are selected on the basis of their leadership, scholarship, pop ularity and participation in extra curricular activities. The basic list of thirty candi dates for this honor was prepared Monday evening by a committee of regimental commanders presided over by Tom Gillis. This basic list will be submitted to the faculty members of the Student Activity Committee by Gillis at a meeting Thursday afternoon. The commit tee, composed of Dean F. C. Bolton, E. L. Angell, Joe Skiles, G, B. Wil cox and D. W. Williams, will make the final selection of the students whose biographies will be printed. The names of the twenty selected will be published in next Tuesday’s Battalion. College Livestock Wins at State Fair The animal husbandry depart ment announced Monday that col lege stock had won 8 firsts, one second, two thirds and one fourth place at the Annual Texas State Fair held at Dallas recently. Annabelle, a 3 year-old mare, Laura Laet, a two-year old mare, and Genavive, a yearling mare, con tributed in no litle way, taking a first place apiece in the three classes of mares judged. Another outstanding horse in the judging was Cornelius, named junior champion stallion and the first place yearling stallion. Aggies Compose Largest Delegation At AIEE Convention Thirty-six Aggies and three professors of the electrical engi neering department who made up the largest collegiate delegation at th American Institute of Electrical Engineers Convention last week, returned to the campus early yes terday. In addition to the conven tion, their trip included numerous inspection tours to points of in terest around St. Louis. PICTURE DEADLINES October 14 through Octo ber 17—Coast Artillery Vanity Fair and Senior Favorite deadline—Decem ber 20. Club reservation deadline —December 18.